Sentence examples for ocean coastlines from inspiring English sources

Indonesia, India, Thailand and Sri Lanka dropped their tsunami warnings, although Kenya and Tanzania were still on alert along their Indian Ocean coastlines on Wednesday afternoon.

Some of the effects being seen today and cited in the report are familiar, like more powerful tropical storms and erosion of ocean coastlines caused by melting Arctic ice.

According to the trade association PlasticsEurope, world plastic production grew from some 1.5 million tons in 1950 to an estimated 275 million tons in 2010; some 4 million to 12 million tons is discarded into the oceans annually by countries with ocean coastlines.

The bigger challenge, and we have got to be honest about it, [is] the logistics, especially in Indonesia," he told BBC Radio 4. Charities have swung into action along Indian Ocean coastlines, with a plane chartered by Oxfam heading for Sri Lanka and Indonesia, carrying 27 tonnes of emergency water and sanitation equipment, which will provide safe water for 170,000 people when it is assembled.

About 98% of the world's land area lies within 900 nautical miles of ocean coastlines, and Darpa increasingly sees conflicts being fought out at sea.

The Glacier Bay Basin is now a myriad combination of tidewater glaciers, snow-capped mountain ranges, ocean coastlines, deep fjords, and freshwater rivers and lakes that provide widely varying land and seascape and "hosts a mosaic of plant communities and a variety of marine and terrestrial wildlife".

By some estimates, at least 70 percent of the ocean coastline of the lower 48 states is threatened by erosion.

Most of the double-decker dunes that define the East End's ocean coastline are hanging tight, too.

There is also shipping along the state's 390-mile (628-kilometre) ocean coastline and a busy network of airports.

In this photograph, coastal lagoons with numerous rounded islands are typical of the Indian Ocean coastline of Western Australia.

Helicopters and planes have been dispatched to pick up election officials from all corners of Kenya, from the Indian Ocean coastline to the arid deserts of the north.